Rick Scott

Greg Sargent has the ad that Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-health care reform 527 run by notorious hospital industry fraudster Rick Scott, will be running during the president’s Massachusetts vacation.
It’s unclear, though, what can be gained by attacking Obama on the air in Martha’s Vineyard. The main decisions about the fate of the public [...]

Republicans hope to hold out on health care until the fall, staving off a public plan.

The health care multi-millionaire’s group, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, is going on the air in 11 states, targeting 14 senators (12 Democrats and two Republicans) with pretty standard attacks on government waste and the threat of bureaucrats interfering in medical decisions.
The list of targets is a little bit surprising. Eight of them represent states carried [...]

On Capitol Hill right now, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is moderating a bicameral “response” to President Obama’s health care push, which heads to ABC News for a TV special tonight. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) are promoting their own health care plans; Rick Scott, the controversial multimillionaire who [...]

Carrie Budoff Brown checks in on something I noticed in February—despite every indication that there would be a health care fight this year, Republicans really don’t seem girded for it. They don’t have any alternative plans that everyone can get behind, and their only external support is coming from Rick Scott. Brown finds that Scott [...]

I talked briefly with Rick Scott, the chairman (and major funder) of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, after he gave a short talk at the Heritage Foundation about his group’s efforts to create a grassroots movement against nationalized health care. After asking him about the reception he was getting for Republicans, I wanted to know whether [...]